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jury that may thereby be done to the foot of the animal. 
Tt is likewife conceived that ve: t want may be de- 
rived from the changing of the hee ino i eh aerce as 
are and firm, the pre fog removal of the 
diforder, as ¥ is mot oad te to oder inthe damp, moift, 
autumnal, an eet fap feafons, and where the {tuations 
are low, Lowy an Hoa by It however often occurs in 
other places. 
HALTER, inR th 
the rope kind, formed for the purpofe of puting “upon nthe 
heads of artes and other animals, 3 in the ¥ leading 
confining them. The head-part is ioinetiact fucwed of ae 
but at others of a fort ede w hempen web or eet to 
which the rope-part is faftened. 
plied to a_head-ftall f 
bong 
term is alfo an 
In this cafe, a long {trap of 
leather is ‘fixed to the head-ftall in order to fecure the horfe 
to the manger by, though fometimes rope is employed for 
the 
; the Society yof Art and which’ hewn nthe ane 
at I.3 ais g pafling through a mortice in the 
oe aki ofthe faple clot to! nto 
= ee Fa 
neceffary that all fuch horfes, as have the habit of eal 
ing themfelves, fhould have throat-bands to their 
ueezing 
two or. three ounces of hog’s lard :_put this 
ito lth and tie the fot in a Bon remain all night. 
en Bt he fail 
op grees deg slband Brahe Sil tile 
HALTER + a cord or of leather, 
were tis of lang Ara of Kathe, 
os A Uy Open cn the Lappe} 20 mle 
ery fituated 
lat. 51 
y motion of a horfe, arifing from 
tees eesyle is — leg 
sere teeters 
20 miles i 
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fixed to it, by which it might be. carried; 
halterifte were thofe who exercifed themisiens i in rem removing. 
thofe weights from place to place. Thefe authors add, that 
the weight or ball mentioned by Budzus, was not aes ArT 
halter, but anny alter, which fignifies helper, defen ; 
ier. Mer curialis, in his treatife De A os 
F: ii, cap. 12. diftinguifhed two kinds of halterifte ; Sop 
though there was ae one halter, there were two ways of. 
f applying it. The o as to throw or pitch it in a certain 
manner ; the other oi to hold it out at arm’s end ; and. 
fi 
hands backwards and forwards, &c. aceon to the, 
engraven figures thereof given us by Merc i 
¢ halter was of a cylindrical figure, fmaller i in the middle 
that the 
F (where it was held) by one diameter, than at the two ends.- 
foo 
vy. and lib. vi. {peaks of this exercife, 
and fhews of what ufe it is in purging the body of peceant 
peo ong making it Saris both to purgation and phle-. 
tomy 
HALTING, among Farriers, &c. an irr larity in the 
a lamenefs < are injury in 
the fhoulder, leg, or A hich leads him to fpare the part, 
or ufe it too timorou 
An ma ecgueintasct. a Ge diforder, in its feveral circu 
ftances, is a t t extent in the affairs of the 
in the thule the ri or 
he hip, ham, or the 
‘5 "The fi figns which indicate it in the fhoulder, are pe | 
Peay 25 ome wie ere pd ging cap eels , 
of the thou! an joining to 
marro hich is the foe-itch of the breait, pore is 
known by hig teaies his ileps fhri , ready. 
3. If it be the fs ees i the compet, 
owing to fome ftrain, or to be diit tue 
mour or ing thereon, or its hot and burn- 
ing to the touch; or in the 
